Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 731. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI. 180-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.02 gm). Arados mint. Dated year 90 (170/169 BC). Diademed head right, wearing aegis / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; koppa (date) in left field. Cf. Mørkholm, Ptolemaic 154; cf. Svoronos 1112 & 1205; cf. SNG Copenhagen 547. EF, light porosity. Unpublished with this date form. ($600)

On the plentiful published specimens, the koppa is always engraved as a 'P'.